warp drive

Proponents of the EmDrive are still trying to demonstrate it can work, but evidence remains thin on the ground despite a new report. The problem with the design — the fact that it violates the laws of physics — remain unaddressed.

NASA physicist Harold White has given a new presentation and updated version of a theoretical version of a future warp drive vessel. One day, such craft might spur exploration of the solar system — or even other planets.

A team of researchers has managed to (very technically) break Newton’s third law of motion — that every action has an equal and opposite reaction — by accelerating laser pulses around a loop, seemingly without any corresponding push-back.

Late last year, it emerged that a small team of NASA researchers were working on warp drive technology in the lab. Led by Harold “Sonny” White, the team devised a variation of the Alcubierre warp drive that could almost be feasibly produced — if we can work out how to produce and store antimatter. Now, White is ready to discuss some other facets of his warp drive, such as the energy requirements, what a spacecraft with a warp drive would look like, and what it would be like to travel at warp speed.

Is humanity close to making interstellar spaceflight a possibility, even within some of our own lifetimes? It certainly seems so as new breakthroughs in warp drive designs warrant further investigation.

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